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Kos or Cos () ((ギリシア語:Κως), (:kos)) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, off the Anatolian coast of Turkey. Kos is the third largest of the Dodecanese by area, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 33,388 (2011 census), making it the second most populous of the Dodecanese, after Rhodes.〔http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/General/A1602_SAM01_DT_DC_00_2011_02_F_GR.pdf〕 The island measures , and is from the coast of the ancient region of Caria in Turkey. Administratively, Kos constitutes a municipality within the Kos regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Kos town.〔(Kallikratis law ) Greece Ministry of Interior 〕 ==Name== The name ''Kos'' ((ギリシア語:Κῶς), genitive Κῶ)〔Liddell ''et al.'', ''A Greek–English Lexicon'', ''s.v.''〕 is first attested in the ''Iliad'', and has been in continuous use since. Other ancient names include Meropis, Cea,〔Pliny cites Staphylus of Naucratis for this name in the ''Natural History'' (5:36 ), but Peck apparently misinterprets Staphylus as a name of Kos〕 and Nymphaea.〔Harry Thurston Peck, ''Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'', 1898, (''s.v.'' Cos )〕 In many Romance languages, Kos was formerly known as ''Stancho'', ''Stanchio'', or ''Stinco'', and in Ottoman and modern Turkish it is known as ''İstanköy'', all from the Greek expression ''εις την Κω'' 'to Kos';〔C.S. Sonnini, ''Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI, and with the authority of the Ottoman court'', London, 1801, 1 (p. 212 )〕 ''cf.'' the similar ''Stamboul'' and ''Stimpoli, Crete''. Under the rule of the Knights Hospitaller of Rhodes, it was known as Lango or Langò, presumably because of its length.〔''A handbook for travellers in Greece'', Murray's Handbooks, 4th edition, London, 1872, (p. 364 )〕〔H.J.A. Sire, ''The Knights of Malta'', Yale, 1996, ISBN 0300068859, (p. 34 )〕 In ''The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'', the author misunderstands this, and treats Lango and Kos as distinct islands.〔Anthony Bale, trans., ''The Book of Marvels and Travels'', Oxford 2012, ISBN 0199600600, (p. 15 ) and footnote〕 In Italian, it is known as ''Coo''. A person from Kos is called a "Koan" in English. The word is also an adjective, as in "Koan goods".〔(Kos Island Today ). Kosisland.gr.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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